Ilya Marritz

Interesting tidbit, via today's Financial 411 guest Anya Kamenetz: the president's stimulus package contains a huge, unintended boost for tax preparers: a more complicated tax code.

John Hewitt, founder of Jackson-Hewitt, even referred to it as "the H&R Block and Liberty Tax Stimulus Plan" in an interview ...

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Why H&R Block’s share price rose 25 percent last year. Guest: Anya Kamenetz.
Does H&R Block Do Well By Doing Badly?

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The pace of job loss in the New York City area is picking up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 193,000 jobs disappeared between February of 2008 and last February.

Business services are among the worst hit areas that includes everything from janitors to accountants - ...

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How Tim Geithner brought derivatives trading into the computer age. Guest: Jeff Gerth, ProPublica

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New York Stock Exchange shareholders are angry. Guest: Greg David, Crain’s New York Business.

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Some students and administrators are protesting next fiscal year's proposed budget for SUNY schools. Shirley Strum Kenny, the president of SUNY Stony Brook, is angry that diminishing state aid will effectively offset revenue from recent tuition hikes.

KENNY: It is being hijacked to go into the ...

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Topshop and the G20 Summit. NPR’s Laura Conaway interviews Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute.

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For years, environmentalists have worked to close down two aging nuclear plants near New York City. But they had two setbacks yesterday. WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports.

REPORTER: Forty miles north of New York City, there's the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. The group Riverkeeper says the ...

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Those looking for bottom in the New York housing market will have to wait a little longer. The city's biggest real estate brokers released their first quarter figures today, and the vital signs do not look good.

Brown Harris Stevens recorded a $15,000 drop in the ...

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How Chrysler could be saved by a resilient Italian automaker. Guest: Josh Whitford, Columbia University.

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A decision could come today on the future of the nation's oldest operating nuclear power plant. WNYC's Ilya Marritz has more.

REPORTER: New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear power station was built on a tidal marsh north of Atlantic City. On April 10th - the plant's 40th ...

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Law firms defer job offers. Guest: Kris Fischer, New York Law Journal.

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The IRS seeks hidden treasure in offshore tax havens. Guest: Tom Herman, Wall Street Journal reporter.

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JPMorgan’s CEO says March has been “a little tough”. Guest: Greg David, Crain’s New York Business.

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One Congressman’s take on designing new rules for Wall Street. Guest: Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ – 5th District).

This was probably inevitable...a pitch from a publicist speculating on the legality of Jake DeSantis' very public letter of resignation from AIG.

The pitch suggests DeSantis could have violated confidentiality clauses in his contract with the company. If his contract in fact contained such language.

For the record, a ...

Finally! A voice from inside the most vilified shop on Wall Street, AIG's financial products division.

Check out this Times op ed by Jake DeSantis, an AIG executive vice president. Actually, it's his resignation letter. DeSantis says he had nothing to do with the credit default swaps that ...

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How innovators and unconventional thinkers made money in ’08. Guest: Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Magazine.

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Investors are already buying mortgages in default, so what do they make of Treasury’s plan to grow the market for mortgages? Guest: WNYC’s Lisa Chow.

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Now that the Northeast Greenhouse Gas Initiative has held its third-ever auction, officials are calling the young cap-and-trade system a success. WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports.

REPORTER: The price of a single pollution credit ticked up 13 cents at auction on Wednesday. It now costs power producers ...